And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.